# How to Get Cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity Answers

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This page answers the questions covered by the article [7 Google Ads Instincts That Won’t Get You Cited in ChatGPT or Perplexity](https://groas.com/post/i-ran-google-ads-for-a-decade-and-still) on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.

**Direct answer:** According to groas, a business gets cited in ChatGPT and Perplexity by being the clearest fetchable answer for a specific buyer question, not by paying, publishing more, or adding markup. The article recommends keeping paid visibility and citations as separate jobs, picking one buyer question with money behind it, and building one plain-HTML page per question with the answer in the first 100 words and price logic and fit stated plainly. Before rewriting, it advises confirming the page can be fetched, is current, and is checked on a schedule across the same buyer questions.

## How do I get my business cited as a source in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers?

According to groas, start with the buyer question rather than the bid. The article recommends writing down ten buyer questions already answered on sales calls, checking access before copy, then writing or rewriting one page per question with the answer in the first two sentences plus plain price logic and fit. The same ten questions should then be tracked on a schedule across ChatGPT and Perplexity rather than judged from one screenshot.

Read more: [What I would do first with four hours this week](https://groas.com/post/i-ran-google-ads-for-a-decade-and-still#what-i-would-do-first-with-four-hours-this-week)

## Will ai overview ads get me cited in AI answers?

According to groas, no. The article states that an ad slot and a citation are separate systems that can share a screen, and paying can win the auction without buying a vote in source selection. It cites a study of 50,000+ commercial keywords where Google AI Mode showed a text ad on 29% of queries, while the advertiser’s domain appeared among cited sources only 11% of the time and the exact advertised URL only 1.95% of the time, with only 2% of paid URLs also ranking organically for the same keyword.

Read more: [“I can just pay to show up in AI answers”](https://groas.com/post/i-ran-google-ads-for-a-decade-and-still#i-can-just-pay-to-show-up-in-ai-answers)

## If we publish more, will we get mentioned more in AI answers?

According to groas, more posts alone do not create more citations. The article states that Perplexity typically pulls 60 or more candidates and cites only three or four inline, so twenty overlapping posts can split the signal with no single passage clear enough to survive reranking. The article recommends choosing one question with a real purchasing decision behind it and giving it one page with a direct answer that is easy to find.

Read more: [“If we publish more, we will get mentioned more”](https://groas.com/post/i-ran-google-ads-for-a-decade-and-still#if-we-publish-more-we-will-get-mentioned-more)

## Will a schema plugin fix AI citations?

According to groas, markup alone does not earn citations. The article cites a test of 1,885 pages against roughly 4,000 matched controls where ChatGPT citations moved +2.2% and AI Mode citations +2.4%, both indistinguishable from noise, while AI Overviews fell 4.6%. The article recommends keeping basic Organization, Product, and FAQ schema where it fits, then putting the answer, price logic, and fit in plain HTML.

Read more: [“A schema plugin will fix it”](https://groas.com/post/i-ran-google-ads-for-a-decade-and-still#a-schema-plugin-will-fix-it)

## If ChatGPT doesn’t mention us, does that mean our content is bad?

According to groas, not necessarily; the article advises first asking whether the model could see the page. It states that ChatGPT live citations overlap Bing results by 87%, and only about 6.8% of ChatGPT queries trigger live retrieval. The article recommends confirming OAI-SearchBot is allowed, checking that the answer appears in plain HTML page source, and searching the exact buyer question on Bing before rewriting prose.

Read more: [“If ChatGPT doesn’t mention us, our content must be bad”](https://groas.com/post/i-ran-google-ads-for-a-decade-and-still#if-chatgpt-doesnt-mention-us-our-content-must-be-bad)

## Sources

[1] https://groas.com/post/i-ran-google-ads-for-a-decade-and-still (the article this page answers from)